I was wondering what the final results were for Gordon's problem with deleting files....
Logan C. Kinnison
lckinni@...
May 1, 1998 5:40 pm
3
... Sorry for the long quote above, but it's been a few days since the above post, and I've been busy marking finals. Some years ago, I suggested that SNOBOL 4...
John Lindsay
lindsay-j@...
May 4, 1998 12:55 pm
4
... Spitbol/360 in particular was assymetric in that there existed functions which, given values, produced a result; they needed the coverse structure which,...
gep2@...
May 4, 1998 5:45 pm
5
- On Mon, 4 May 1998, John Lindsay wrote: ...super-snipped... /\/\ ..Some years ago, I suggested that SNOBOL 4 ... was assymetric in that there existed...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
May 4, 1998 6:00 pm
6
Mike - ... I don't know what is the moral of the above. I am sure Mark's reaction must have been misinterpreted. To me it seems that you "encapsulated" (or at...
Larry Pfeffer
lpfeffer@...
May 8, 1998 5:23 pm
7
... One idea in the SETL "panache of ideas" was (if I recall) suggesting that some functions may be defined in "sinister mode", say as ... F(1) = 1 ... F(2) =...
Larry Pfeffer
lpfeffer@...
May 8, 1998 9:08 pm
8
<<This is starting to define a function looking like the Fibonacci series. At lease the values of the function at 1-5 and 7 are known. One interesting ...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
May 10, 1998 6:55 pm
9
I finally found out the secret to getting Spitbol to run under Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0 as a CGI process - add %s to the filetype table entry ...
David Feustel
feustel@...
May 10, 1998 7:01 pm
10
... as programming language design. It leads a number of languages (e.g. PL/1 and Ada) to quite deliberately depart from the Algol-60 tradition and use the...
gep2@...
May 27, 1998 12:17 am
11
<<Especially true when/if that array reference/function call is on the left side of an assignment statement!!! ... Right, given that SNOBOL allows functions on...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
May 27, 1998 12:24 am
12
... Agreed. How about some examples showing that power. -- David Feustel 219-483-1857...
David Feustel
feustel@...
May 27, 1998 1:25 am
13
... Here's a trivial one that is used a lot in parsing (see for example Andy Koenig's snocone source, or any of the compiler examples in the last chapter of...
Mark Emmer
marke@...
May 27, 1998 4:58 am
14
... side of an assignment statement!!! >> ... that is another argument for uniformity of reference (incidentally, I often find that SNOBOL4 programmers do not...
gep2@...
May 27, 1998 9:25 am
15
I am a computer science student and I am doing Snobol4 programming. I shall highly appreciate if someone could please tell me how to take input from a file in...
Abhinav Chandra
chan9398@...
May 30, 1998 4:29 pm
16
- On Sat, 30 May 1998, Abhinav Chandra wrote: ...snipped... - ... - Abhinav: Howdy & _welcuome_! Ahhh... : The value of documentation! The manual is online at...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
May 30, 1998 5:12 pm
17
Thank you very much for your help. I am sorry I do not know what is the Green Book. But if you wish I can ask that from my professor on monday. Thanks once...
Abhinav Chandra
chan9398@...
May 30, 1998 5:22 pm
18
The syntax of the INPUT() and OUTPUT() functions used to attach variales to files differs between SNOBOL4 dialects and implementations. If you're using Catspaw...
Phil Budne
phil@...
May 30, 1998 5:53 pm
19
Thank you very much for your reply. Sincerely, Abhinav. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Abhinav Chandra 125 Roxbury Ave. Oakdale, NY...
Abhinav Chandra
chan9398@...
May 30, 1998 5:58 pm
20
- Phil: A bit of an "Oops!" on my part...: On Sat, 30 May 1998, Phil Budne wrote: ...snipped... ... - "Mr Radow" was my grandfather (Dad was a Doc), and...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
May 30, 1998 6:57 pm
21
... .. ... .. ... Try this, quick before they decide it is obsolete. HTTP://www.uic.edu:80/depts/adn/infwww/txt/v5634001.txt and ...
George Yanos
gyanos@...
May 30, 1998 8:29 pm
22
- What price for progress? I've gotten quite a bit of "direct email" -- and considerable good-natured kidding -- for calling CMS "an ancient OS". Several folks...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
May 31, 1998 10:33 pm
23
... What I remember from VM/CMS using Spitbol 360/370 is that, in contrast to MVS where you had to submit jobs with JCL cards, you had to submit FILEDEF ...
Peter-Arno Coppen
P.A.Coppen@...
Jun 1, 1998 9:55 am
24
... Dear reader, as another 'real life example' of using nreturn, I implement object property access in my 'object-oriented spitbol'. Consider the expression ...
Arjan Loeffen
Arjan.Loeffen@...
Jun 1, 1998 10:59 am
25
... Mike, I liked the above quote. The question which comes to mind is, what is the obvious vs. the "non-obvious". To me it is starting to look as if nothing...
Larry Pfeffer
lpfeffer@...
Jun 1, 1998 11:32 am
26
... Mike, I am not sure that $49.95 today for a book with a CD-ROM is more expensive than $6.95 in 1971. As far as I can tell rent since then may have gone up...
Larry Pfeffer
lpfeffer@...
Jun 1, 1998 11:37 am
27
Regarding Mike's Email on the cost of the Green Book and current technology books, I tried to give a sense of the changes in salary and costs & said that I...
Larry Pfeffer
lpfeffer@...
Jun 1, 1998 5:01 pm
28
On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Larry Pfeffer wrote: ...snipped... ... - Larry: Yep! However, I know a fellow, about 26 or 27, who just got a Ph.D. (MathStat in queuing &...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Jun 1, 1998 6:35 pm
29
Mike, ... What economic theory would explain the approx. 10x price increases in the last 30 yrs? Do you happen to know what the COL and S&P 500 changes are in ...
Larry Pfeffer
lpfeffer@...
Jun 1, 1998 9:05 pm
30
... yrs, in spite of the following factors: a) loss of USA monopoly due to Japanese and Korean brands, b) significant automation in design and manufacturing,...
gep2@...
Jun 1, 1998 10:18 pm
31
- ... - - On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Peter-Arno Coppen wrote: ...snipped... - ... - Thanks, Peter-Arno! This _and_ Phil's posting, below, jogged my memory: On Sat, 30...
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